Larry Pinkney

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In…

Nothing is quite as pathetic as a people without roots, identity, or history. Recently, I was conducting business at a U.S. post office when the clerk assisting me at the counter noticed that I was wearing a small red, black, and green flag on my lapel. The clerk said to me, “I see you are…

History does not repeat itself. Rather, it is people who repeat history, especially when we do not learn from the lessons of history. Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a…

With this in mind, it was a welcome breath of fresh air, when representing BlackCommentator.com, I found myself among a core group of critically thinking Black folks attending a panel discussion at the June, 2008, National Conference On Media Reform. This particular panel consisted of a number of sisters and brothers. It was exhilarating to…

On December 14, 2007, Reverend Pinkney was wrongfully jailed for having dared to exercise his human right to free speech when he explicitly, boldly, and correctly referred to Judge Alfred Butzbaugh as a “racist and corrupt Judge.” Reverend Pinkney had already been falsely prosecuted in retaliation for having dared to have led a successful effort…

There are very few these days who demonstrate that all-too-rare quality of telling the narrative of the people’s struggle as it really is while simultaneously struggling to bring about real systemic change with and for Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White peoples. Cynthia McKinney is audaciously doing just that. Cynthia is running for President of…

Despite, and perhaps because of, my intense political experiences over the years in Africa, Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world, I never cease to be amazed and sickened at how many so-called “progressives” and those of the American “Left,” have in this year of 2008, demonstrated that they never really wanted…